Exhibition Time

The week has arrived for me to display my latest artistic project to the public. I'm so exhilarated to be doing this because it is something that I promised myself I would do this time last year. And it really feels like it is meant to be when you make a little promise to yourself and then it comes true.

This project has ran in parallel with my life changing experiences over the past few months (please see previous blogs for an update on what I've been doing), it's not been an epic revolutionary quest or a discovery journey around the world, just taking the time to think about my own being. I've spent most of the time sitting quietly and peacefully in my front room letting myself think what ever I need to think and walking in the field next to my home and looking at all there is to see, basking in the different things that nature brings to that space every day. Of course I have also continued with lots of 'normal' things like shopping at Tesco and watching American TV shows, thinking about fashions and what to make for tea. The juxtaposition of these activities are the foundation of my project along with questions about the way my physical body and intangible mind work as a sometimes unlikely partnership. All of these totally different elements morph together to form the synergy of me and my life.

These elements are also in a constant state of flux, and they can work with each other and against. I still don't have the answers but I do have some questions that I've been thinking about the answer to. Because I naturally articulate myself in image form it has felt natural to create these images over last three months. I feel like I could talk about them forever and not at all, at the same time. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to share them to other people, but ultimately I have created them for myself, as both a cathartic tool and an anchor point to look back on, much like entries in a diary to those who find comfort in that.

And so, the exhibition will be running for 2 weeks and if you can get to Stoke on Trent to see it that will be more than I could have ever hoped for this time last year. The details of the exhibition are below, but the images won't be posted online as of yet. Please leave comments or feedback and let me know about projects that you are currently working on as I would love to hear from you.